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Papers presented at the annual Seminar on Syntactic Complexity held each November at the University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, from 2015 to 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This volume surveys the phenomenon of syntactic complexity in a diversity of languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The topics include clause combining strategies such as relative, complement, and adverbial clauses, serialization, clausal nominalizations, but also the switch reference systems involved in clause chains, the role of insubordination and the influence of language contact in the development of syntactic complexity as well as the acquisition of complex clauses in child language and the grammaticalization processes leading to syntactic complexity. These studies illustrate the varied aspects involved in clause combining and help to understanding how syntactic complexity works and evolves in the world's languages, how it varies across languages, how it is influenced by language contact, how it is acquired. As such, this book gives the opportunity for readers to expand both their typological and their theoretical knowledge about syntactic complexity in a variety of languages" -- Provided by publisher.

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Intro; Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; The notion of syntactic complexity; Presentation of the book; Overview of the papers; References; Part I. Syntactic complexity and language contact; Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: Areal influences within Highland New Guinea; 1. Introduction; 2. Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: The basics; 2.1 Switch-reference morphology in Kobon and Haruai; 3. Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: What is tracked?

4. Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: Overlapping reference4.1 Overlapping reference in Kobon; 4.2 Overlapping reference in Haruai; 5. Conclusion and prospects; Abbreviations; References; Models of grammar and the outcomes of long-term language contact: Language mixing in Dakkhini; 1. Introduction; 2. Theories of language mixing outcomes: The MLFM; 3. Dakkhini; 3.1 Dakkhini: Basic facts; 3.2 Dakkhini: Some examples; 3.3 Dakkhini and the MLFM; 4. An exoskeletal frame model: EFM; 4.1 The EFM is a generative competence model; 4.2 The structure and properties of the EFM

4.3 How the EFM deals with CS type mixing data5. An exoskeletal EFM analysis of Dakkhini; 5.1 Dakkhini and the EFM; 5.2 Dakkhini and the complementizer ki; 5.3 Dakkhini and Bol ke; 5.4 Wider implications of our analysis; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; References; Part II. Syntactic complexity and language acquisition; Constructional grounding in emerging complexity: Constructional grounding in emerging complexity: Early comp-que constructions in Spanish acquisition; 1. Introduction; 2. Antecedents; 2.1 Constructional grounding in acquisition; 2.2 Spanish antecedents

3. Method3.1 Data selection; 3.2 Data presentation; 4. Analysis; 4.1 Overview of early complex sentences: ctv + comp-que constructions; 4.2 On verbs that will take comp-que constructions: Developing a construction inventory; 4.2 On verbs that will take comp-que constructions: Developing a construction inventory; 4.3 Looking at Free comp-que constructions; 4.4 Development of ctv frames and comp-que constructions; 4.5 Bridging the gap. Dialogical support and on-line integration; 5. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgement; Abbreviations; References

Part III. The syntactic complexity of adverbial clausesThe predicates of Luiseño clausal adjuncts; 1. Introduction; 2. Temporal properties and a word's informational structure; 3. Properties of form; 3.1 Values for PER and N; 3.2 Temporality and form; 3.3 Implications; 4. Conclusion; References; Adverbial subordinators in Yaqui; 1. Introduction; 2. Yaqui sentences; 2.1 Simple clauses; 2.2 Relative clauses; 2.3 Complement clauses; 3. Adverbial subordinators, some generalities; 4. Yaqui adverbial subordinators; 4.1 The sample; 4.2 Specific subordinators; 4.3 General subordinators